Games: You learnt to play and you learnt the street rules- no matter what you were doing there was always rules you had to keep- you know- like when we were playing peevers- when you were finished you had to wash it off- we were never allowed to leave the chalk marks Scots and Irish: Coming up to St Patrick's day- we used to have Scots & Irish; Newspaper wrapped in a ball and string- "Are you Scotch or are you Irish?"- "Oh dinnae hit me- I dinnae ken what I am!" Peevers- You marked out on the ground. We sometimes marked them in a square and made nine sections and you spaced the numbers away from each other so you jumped over to each thing- You skiffed your tin into whatever number you were and you had to go and jump over to it on one leg and pick it up without putting your leg down and then you had to jump back again. And you did that until you got to number nine and then you jumped out of the bed- you had a wee half ring and that was you home- you had finished your bed. But sometimes you played aeroplane beds. Guiders We used to get a plank of wood, buy four wooden wheels and if you were well off enough or if somebody had an old pram that could give you pram wheels, you had a decent guider-one that would really run! You put an axle on it with rope or string to guide you.

Peevers in the Old Town. It wouldn't be the same today playing peevers because we had this big lump of what we call pipe clay- an oblong bar, white, and you made your peevers with that- I couldn't imagine drawing peevers now with a piece of chalk! The pipe clay came from the shops - people whitened the doorsteps with it. More Games